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<div>OH NO!!! TVTROPES!!!!<br />
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Should be "Gedankengang" (Plural, it's "Gedanke" + "n"). Means: chain/train/line of thought(s)<br />
[[Special:Contributions/91.66.205.94|91.66.205.94]] 05:52, 3 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
:Interesting idea, because it matches the text more closely, but he really wasn't that famous for his "chain of thought" - more famous for his Gedankenexperimente, for example, chasing a light beam (leading to Special Relativity) or the thought experiments that lead to the EPR paradox. --[[Special:Contributions/196.35.92.54|196.35.92.54]] 09:52, 3 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
::Anyway, "Gedankedank" does not really make sense, it's not a word. [[Special:Contributions/130.60.152.125|130.60.152.125]]<br />
:::Might be refering to "Badonkadonk", even though "Gedankedank" isnt a german word. [[Special:Contributions/178.26.88.31|178.26.88.31]]<br />
::That's what I think: He's taken "Gedankenexperiment", which sounds funny in English, and taken the "Gedanken" part and reduplicated it to match the sound of "badonkadonk", without worrying about whether it makes sense in German. --[[Special:Contributions/196.35.92.54|196.35.92.54]] 12:22, 3 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
:"chain of thought" might be a too literal translation. I think "Gedankengang" is a bit broader than just meaning "chain of thought". Its literal translation would be "go of the thoughts" or "way the thoughts are going". If Randall has done some research before creating the word, then this is also a possiblity. In German one could really say, that Albert Einstein is famous for his "Gedankenexperimente", "Gedanken" or "Gedankengänge". Maybe we should offer both explanations? --[[Special:Contributions/212.255.32.112|212.255.32.112]] 13:35, 6 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Also, from reading http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=103423, in last week's "what if" there was:<br />
::20 meters per second is about how fast an average person with a good arm could throw a bouncy ball. Therefore, to determine the result of an impact, we can make use of what Einstein called a gedankenexperiment, or "thought experiment"<br />
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[[Special:Contributions/196.35.92.54|196.35.92.54]] 10:02, 3 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I'm not sure what the "Lorentz contraction" in the title text is referring to, should this be added to the description? [[Special:Contributions/96.228.23.74|96.228.23.74]] 14:06, 3 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Side note: Logical conclusion -- Shakira's hips must like big butts. [[User:JamesCurran|JamesCurran]] ([[User talk:JamesCurran|talk]]) 15:30, 3 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
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" it is unlikely that he pondered how relativistic velocity would affect the appearance of his butt. " This, ladies and gentlemen, is why i read this! Funnier than xkcd sometimes... Way too many times, sometimes... [[Special:Contributions/189.5.99.20|189.5.99.20]] 03:43, 4 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I just realized the number of this comic. Friday will be comic 1234. I doubt there will be a joke about it since I think only 404 and 1000 had any self-reference. [[Special:Contributions/76.106.251.87|76.106.251.87]] 14:37, 4 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
:Also, as part of a discussion for THIS comic, there was a bit of [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagnificentBastard magnificent basterdry] on Randall's part in seeding within his What If all the information needed to get the joke. Almost anyone that read it would get an immediate chuckle out of it. For me, I had even forgotten the source of where I had learned what "gedankenexperiment" meant. [[Special:Contributions/76.106.251.87|76.106.251.87]] 05:20, 5 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
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AIUI, Einstein shouldn't notice any change himself - well unless he's suddenly also Mr. Fantastic... the MARVEL Mr. Fantastic of the Fantastic Four, and only his lower body is travelling that fast, and his head is in a different frame, where the relative velocities between the two frames is ~c. (But that's stupid. If he was Mr. Fantastic, he'd just fix his butt. Or.. is this superfast motion how Mr. Fantastic gets his powers (and Mystique)? Does that mean Quicksilver and Flash can also exhibit these shape-shifting powers?). Anyway, coming back to the point - I didn't get what the title text states... so I employed some Google-fu and found this: http://faraday.physics.utoronto.ca/PVB/Harrison/SpecRel/Flash/ContractInvisible.html <br />
I think you'd only see the edge of the disk though, and not a ring... given the camera is a 2 dimensional thing in the plane of the disk. Reason I mention that is, I'm still unsure how this works for a 3D object where the object is moving across your FOV. Anyone have any ideas?<br />
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The part „experience no passage of time“ is misleading, as the traveller him-/herself would of course still experience time. This should be replaced by „appear to not age“.</div>162.158.93.57https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2113:_Physics_Suppression&diff=1697912113: Physics Suppression2019-02-18T15:59:07Z<p>162.158.93.57: Randall's characters may be just crazy enough to believe this</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
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| date = February 18, 2019<br />
| title = Physics Suppression<br />
| image = physics_suppression.png<br />
| titletext = If physics had a mafia, I'm pretty sure the BICEP2 mess would have ended in bloodshed.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by the Physics Mafia. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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[[White Hat]] is mad at physicists in general and directs his fury at [[Megan]], a physicist. He has a theory and blames physicists for suppressing it. He believes that no one takes it seriously because his theory would disrupt the standard model in physics. He believes they do this because his theory would be inconvenient to accept, causing them to have to change their current models. <br />
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Megan is not taking him seriously (or is she?) and instead states that she did not know that physicists had a Mafia that was able to suppress anyone from publishing annoying results. She continues that if such a group were there to do so, then why were they not there to stop the people who published results about Dark energy? <br />
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Although she must admit that they (physicists) later gave them a {{w|Nobel Prize}} (in {{w|List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Physics#Laureates|2011}}), she's still mad at them for the "trouble" this new concept caused for other physicists, including her.<br />
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{{w|Dark energy}} is an unknown form of energy which is hypothesized to permeate all of space, tending to accelerate the expansion of the universe. Even though "dark energy" is a direct consequence of {{w|Albert Einstein|Albert Einstein's}} "{{w|cosmological constant}}" in the field equations of {{w|general relativity}}, it's actual discovery was still seen as a surprise within the physics community. Even Einstein had great trouble accepting it, calling it his "greatest blunder"{{Citation needed}}. In the comic, Megan says that if scientists were able to suppress inconvenient ideas, dark energy would likely have been such a case.<br />
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She also indirectly says to White Hat that if he actually had some results, not just a theory that contradicts known physics, then the results would not have been suppressed. The reason the "Dark energy people" got a nobel prize is that the experiments and measurements show that they were onto something real. It seems like White Hat currently only has a model, and not data, to back his theory up. This is the real joke.<br />
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The title text mentions {{w|BICEP2}} (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) which was part of a series of instruments used to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). On 17 March 2014, it was announced, to much fanfare, that BICEP2 had detected B-modes from gravitational waves in the early universe (called primordial gravitational waves). A few years later, this announcement had to be backtracked as it was found that most, if not all, of the reported signal was actually due to interstellar dust within the Milky Way.{{Citation needed}}<br />
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The title text notes that if there had been a physics mafia, then those results would have ended in bloodshed due to the controversy they caused.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[White Hat, with his hands balled into fist and held up above him, is talking with Megan.]<br />
:White Hat: You physicists are suppressing my theory because it's inconvenient for your models!<br />
:Megan: Wait, we have a mafia that can suppress annoying results?<br />
:Megan: ''Why didn't they do something about the dark energy people?!''<br />
:Megan: We gave them a Nobel prize but I'm still mad at them!<br />
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[[Category:Comics featuring White Hat]]</div>162.158.93.57https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1391:_Darkness&diff=1679541391: Darkness2019-01-10T08:06:38Z<p>162.158.93.57: Added tvtropes template</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
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| date = July 7, 2014<br />
| title = Darkness<br />
| image = darkness.png<br />
| titletext = This was actually wish #406. Wish #2 was for him to lose the ability to remember that each new wish wasn't my first.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
[[Ponytail]] as a [[:Category:News anchor|news anchor]] describes the {{w|sunset}} as though it were an unprecedented, newsworthy event, rather than {{tvtropes|MundaneMadeAwesome| something mundane}} that happens every day. They even have a reporter ([[Cueball]]) on the spot reporting from where the ''darkness'' has spread so far.<br />
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The sunset is a common event. {{w|Isaac Asimov}} based his short story {{w|Nightfall (Asimov short story and novel)|Nightfall}} on a fictional civilization that doesn't know darkness because the planet is always illuminated by the six stars surrounding it. The story describes how people would react (mass insanity, fall of civilization) when the orbital motion of the planet eventually leads to five of the suns setting, plus one in eclipse.<br />
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Describing mundane occurrences in unusual detail, to show off how odd they really are, is something [[Randall]] has done before (for instance about dreaming in [[203: Hallucinations]]). But the caption below the main panel adds another twist to the joke by showing that the news report wasn't a mere imagine spot, but something actually happening due to the interference of Randall's final wish to his {{w|genie}}, which caused all news reporters to forget the day–night cycle.<br />
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Another possible meaning is that this comic is a reference to the way the media often talk about {{w|global warming}} as if each weather occurrence had meaning outside of its context like in [[1321: Cold]]. That take on the weather and the day–night cycle being denied because of a skewed point of view was also used on the {{w|Daily Show}}. The segment "[http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/18l8gy/unusually-large-snowstorm Unusually Large Snowstorm]" from February 10, 2010 used the same trope. Several Daily Show correspondents have different views on the weather based on where they are, ending with a correspondent who equates nighttime with everlasting darkness.<br />
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The caption references the fact that there is a limit to the number of wishes. It is a common rule, often used in fiction, that you get {{tvtropes|ThreeWishes|three wishes}} from a {{tvtropes|GenieInABottle|genie in a bottle}}. There usually is an added stipulation that no wish may be used to acquire more wishes. In the title text, however, it is stated that Randall has managed to bypass the three wish limit rule. This was accomplished by using his second wish to simply make the genie unable to remember granting the speaker any wishes. He have thus used the same trick on the genie as he used here on the media. The media wish turns out '''not''' to have been his last (i.e. third), but rather wish number 406. This shows just how far, "make someone forget something", can go by applying it to the genie.<br />
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It is interesting that it was his second wish that gave him unlimited wishes. What did he wish for on wish #1? Maybe he wasted the first wish, because he did not believe the genie was able to grant wishes – a common error{{Citation needed}}. On the other hand, he may have used the first wish to learn a way where his second wish could circumvent the three rule limit. He did not wish for more wishes (a clear rule), but since the genie now always think the next wish is his first, it is not Randall who asks for more wishes, but the genie that forgets to stop at the limit.<br />
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There seem to be a conflict with the title text, and where the caption says ''Genie, for my last wish...'' because the genie does not know it isn't his first, and would otherwise think it could be, and not his last. It could, however, be to shock the reader, that he makes a point of him wasting a final wish on something this silly. Or he is just mocking the Genie because he won't remember the not-first-wish-thing. Then in the title text, he makes it clear that it was only a wish he used, because he had an unlimited number of wishes at hand. And to the genie he would simply have said, ''...for my first wish...''<br />
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*To have three wishes from a genie, but really only need one, was the joke in [[152: Hamster Ball]]. Perhaps this genie is the same, and the first wish was for a human-sized hamster ball. Much later - inspired by the hamster ball? - he breaks the genie rules to get access to unlimited (not limited to the normal three) genie wishes.<br />
*The concept of having unlimited wishes has previously been explored in [[1086: Eyelash Wish Log]] - one of the wishes is also related to news anchors - the wish is to control the direction they are looking.<br />
*Genies are also part of [[532: Piano]] and [[879: Lamp]], although these two jokes are of a more juvenile character.<br />
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:[Ponytail is a news anchor at a media desk and she reports:]<br />
:Ponytail: ...getting reports that the darkness has spread as far west as Texas. Let's go live to our reporter in Houston.<br />
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:[From a breaking news window in the bottom right corner of the panel, Cueball as a newscaster stands in darkness with two people walking behind him:]<br />
:Cueball: It's been thirty minutes since the sun vanished...<br />
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:[There is a caption below the panel]:<br />
:Caption: "Genie, for my last wish, make everyone in the media forget about the day-night cycle."<br />
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[[Category:News anchor]]</div>162.158.93.57https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:565:_Security_Question&diff=167665Talk:565: Security Question2019-01-03T17:49:37Z<p>162.158.93.57: </p>
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<div>The explanation says "security questions are treated much more seriously than passwords." I completely disagree. People generally understand that a password should be complicated but just pick something easily memorable for the security question. The security question is often easier to crack as they can be looked up and the user might tell you the answer inadvertently. For example, in Now You See Me, they trick their rich benefactor into giving up his bank account security answers. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.7|108.162.219.7]] 02:35, 15 May 2014 (UTC)<br />
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:I agree, and I've changed the explanation text. --[[User:Pudder|Pudder]] ([[User talk:Pudder|talk]]) 11:17, 10 December 2014 (UTC)<br />
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:Also now with social media if you don't have enough privacy settings enabled an attacker can find the answers on say your facebook page, and even if you did have the privacy stuff it won't help if the attacker is on your friend list. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.117|141.101.99.117]] 19:35, 24 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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“Of course, by taking the drink Cueball also admits having buried bodies ''at all''.”<br />
Uh, no, he doesn’t? If he never hid any bodies south of Main Street, it doesn’t imply he hid any bodies anywhere else… right? ~ [[User:VoidPhantom|VoidPhantom]] ([[User talk:VoidPhantom|talk]]) 21:23, 10 September 2015 (UTC)<br />
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:You have that backwards. If he'd buried bodies ''north'' of Main Street (or hadn't buried any at all), then he ''wouldn't'' take a drink. --[[User:Aaron of Mpls|Aaron of Mpls]] ([[User talk:Aaron of Mpls|talk]]) 22:10, 16 September 2015 (UTC)<br />
::I have corrected this back in the explanation. Double negatives confuse people it appears.[[Special:Contributions/162.158.72.89|162.158.72.89]] 22:24, 26 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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The cop sitting at the desk has what appears to be a foot rest or pedal that deliberately has attention drawn to it with 'bump' marks. What does this represent? [[User:ClaireFreund|ClaireFreund]] ([[User talk:ClaireFreund|talk]]) 14:49, 12 November 2018 (UTC)<br />
:Could be a speaker for those not wearing headphones [[Special:Contributions/162.158.93.57|162.158.93.57]] 17:49, 3 January 2019 (UTC)</div>162.158.93.57https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2087:_Rocket_Launch&diff=1675282087: Rocket Launch2018-12-30T12:40:42Z<p>162.158.93.57: /* Explanation */ Many rockets are two stage to orbit rockets</p>
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| date = December 19, 2018<br />
| title = Rocket Launch<br />
| image = rocket_launch.png<br />
| titletext = NASA tries to coordinate launch timing with the Care Bears' cloud castle, but unfortunately sometimes collisions with stray Care Bears are unavoidable, so they just try to make the fairings sturdy and hope for a glancing impact.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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This comic was posted on a week with a notably high number of {{w|rocket launch}}es. Originally, there were to be four {{w|Orbital spaceflight|orbital rocket}} launches from the United States on December 19, 2018 (the publish date for the comic), which would have tied with the prior record for number of orbital rocket launches in one day. While these launches were ultimately delayed, breaking the event, the comic was doubtless under production by then.<br />
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Only some of the steps listed are actually typical.<br />
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: The traditional start of a launch, when the rocket leaves the ground. The engines will typically have been ignited a short time before, often one-by-one in a specifically engineered sequence to reduce shock stress on the rocket, but need to throttle up to produce enough thrust to overcome the rocket's weight. Some launch pad configurations physically restrain the rocket (at least to some degree) until the engines are known to produce the required thrust then the rocket is released (e.g. by pyrotechnically crushing restraining bolts such as in NASA Space Shuttle configuration, or by hydraulic actuators opening a sturdy "clamp", such as in SpaceX Falcon 9 configuration). "Liftoff" refers to the moment this happens, making the rocket lift off the ground.<br />
; {{w|Max q|Max-Q}}<nowiki>:</nowiki> Peak aerodynamic stress.<br />
: A rocket accelerates from the moment it leaves the ground. The faster a rocket goes, the bigger volume of air it pushes through per second - but the higher a rocket goes, the thinner the air. (Before liftoff, the rocket is not moving, and thus is not pushing through air. Once in orbit, there is essentially no air to push through, so the rocket is not pushing through air. Between those two times, the rocket is pushing through some amount of air, the exact amount increasing before Max Q and decreasing after Max Q.) "Max Q" is the moment where these two factors produce a maximum, and is the point where the rocket's structure must withstand the most air pushing back against it.<br />
; Booster separation<br />
: Rockets are designed in {{w|Multistage rocket|stages}}, so they do not have to carry the empty fuel tanks all the way to orbit. (Carrying any mass to orbit is expensive, so the more that can be dropped off earlier, the better.) Two or three stages are typical. "Booster separation" marks the point where the first of these stages (the "{{w|Booster (rocketry)|booster}}"), its fuel expended, is typically ejected.<br />
; Max-CB<nowiki>:</nowiki> Highest chance of collision with {{w|Care Bears}}. <br />
: This is entirely fictitious. Care Bears are fictitious characters, which have a toy line, television series, and movies. The existence of a basketball sneaker named the "Nike Air Force Max CB" may or may not be relevant.<br />
; Main stage separation<br />
: See "booster separation" above. This marks the point where the second stage (the "main stage") is ejected.<br />
; {{w|GPS}} silenced so it will stop saying "Make a U-turn"<br />
: Again, this is fictional. While some rockets do make use of signals from the Global Positioning System ("GPS"), no rockets are known to use the navigational devices that incorporate GPS readers and street maps, providing directions - often with optional text-to-speech - along the Earth's surface. Some such devices are notorious for getting confused in extreme situations (such as the high Mach numbers that rockets achieve); constantly uttering "make a U-turn" would be one such confusion, and any device in such a confused state might well be silenced for being more annoying than helpful. Navigation of this nature is neither necessary nor useful on a rocket, which will have its entire route from ground to orbit computed before launch, and piloting typically left entirely to computers given the precise timing required.<br />
; Reunification (of boosters)<br />
: Another fictional step. Discarded stages fall back into the Earth's atmosphere, either hitting the ground (or, more often, water) or burning up because of the heat-up resulting from high compression of air in front of them while re-entering thick layers of atmosphere at extreme speed. The booster and main stage would not be on a course to come anywhere near each other, and would not have enough fuel to change their course (running out of fuel being why they were discarded in the first place). Even if they did, landing for reuse (as {{w|SpaceX reusable launch system development program|SpaceX has attempted}}, often successfully) would be far more likely than a mid-air reunion.<br />
; Pilot panics, copilot takes command after struggle<br />
: Another fictional step. Astronauts are not the sort of people who panic easily, nor struggle with their crewmates. More importantly, in any modern rocket the "pilot" is not a human being, but a computer incapable of panic (as in the human emotion). It is possible that part of the flight computer could fail, causing redundant failsafes to take over, but the process could not correctly be described as a "struggle", and in any case this sort of failure is uncommon enough that it is not part of a "typical" rocket launch.<br />
; Pursuit phase<br />
: Fictional. This assumes the (nonexistent) reunified booster would have enough fuel to pursue the top stage of the rocket, and a reason to do so. See "Reunification". This might be a reference to {{w|Pursuit guidance}}. The comic indicates that a fight ensues with only one of the pair continuing to orbit.<br />
; Inter-stage {{w|dogfight}}<br />
: Fictional. See "Pursuit phase". A dogfight is an aerial battle between fighter aircraft, conducted at close range. This step claims that the rocket booster and the top stage of the rocket engage in a battle.<br />
; Winner proceeds to space<br />
: Fictional. As noted above, in a real rocket launch there is no dogfight for there to be a "winner" of. A kind reading would note that the top stage "wins" by default, and it is certainly the case that in a real (orbital) rocket launch, the top stage typically does proceed to space.<br />
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The title text refers once again to the Care Bears franchise. The Care Bears live in a castle made of clouds, called [https://carebears.fandom.com/wiki/Care-a-Lot_Castle Care-a-Lot Castle], so the comic claims that NASA aims to avoid launching into their castle, but sometimes cannot avoid hitting "stray" Care Bears. That being said, the point about the strike has a basis in truth; at the speeds a rocket moves, impact with something roughly the size and weight of a human (or a Care Bear) has the potential to be catastrophic. If something should threaten to connect with the rocket, the best that the humans involved can do is hope for a glancing blow with a part of the rocket sturdy enough to endure the impact.<br />
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[The major stages of a rocket launch are shown, with the rocket trajectory indicated by dotted lines. Each stage is annotated with a description and an arrow. A title above the image reads 'Outline of a typical rocket launch'.]<br />
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:[A rocket with two boosters is shown at the bottom left hand corner of the image taking off from a launch pad on the ground, surrounded by clouds of smoke.]<br />
::Liftoff<br />
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:[The rocket ascends vertically]<br />
::Max-Q: Peak aerodynamic stress<br />
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:[Separation of the two external booster rockets is shown, with the main rocket continuing to ascend vertically with a slight rightward tilt and the two boosters curving off to the right.]<br />
::Booster separation<br />
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:[The main rocket stage starts to curve over to the right.]<br />
::Max-CB: Highest chance of collision with care bears<br />
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:[Separation of the second rocket stage. Main rocket heads right, whilst second booster stage curves downward to meet trajectory of first booster stages.]<br />
::Main stage separation<br />
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:[Main rocket continues towards the right.]<br />
::GPS silenced so it will stop saying "make a U-turn"<br />
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:[First and second stage booster rocket trajectories meet and become a single trajectory heading upwards and right.]<br />
::Reunification<br />
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:[Trajectory of main rocket wobbles slightly.]<br />
::Pilot panics, copilot takes command after struggle<br />
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:[Booster stage rockets continue to head upwards and right towards the main rocket trajectory.]<br />
::Pursuit phase<br />
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:[Main rocket and booster stage trajectories meet and cross three times.]<br />
::Inter-stage dogfight<br />
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:[The trajectory for one of the stages ends in an explosion.]<br />
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:[The remaining trajectory, indicated with dashed-lines and question marks, continues towards the right and off the edge of the page.]<br />
:: Winner proceeds to space<br />
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I think the bot on here and xkcd OS might be broken[[Special:Contributions/172.69.22.200|172.69.22.200]] 04:46, 16 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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The 2x version (found in srcset attribute) is complete though - https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/repairs_2x.png [[Special:Contributions/162.158.2.16|162.158.2.16]] 05:08, 16 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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This comic almost seems meta. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.142.64|162.158.142.64]] 05:15, 16 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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The improperly-sized version is probably intentional, given the changes indicated in the "2x" version and the results. The link to the "2x" version should be included in the explanation. Dissassembling the "original" version before moving it to trash would be likely to increase rather than decrease the size of the file in trash. [[User:The Dining Logician|The Dining Logician]] ([[User talk:The Dining Logician|talk]]) 06:02, 16 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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The way I'm reading the graph, I think the dashed lines represent how Randall hoped things would go at each point in the repair effort, whereas the solid line represents the actual repair progress (or rather the lack of it). [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 12:55, 16 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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This is the fifth comic in a row to need a trivia section in the explanation, starting from [[1990: Driving Cars]]. Has that happened before, and should it be mentioned in the trivia section? [[User:Herobrine|Herobrine]] ([[User talk:Herobrine|talk]]) 13:06, 16 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
:Meta trivia? I don't feel that's needed... [[User:Elektrizikekswerk|Elektrizikekswerk]] ([[User talk:Elektrizikekswerk|talk]]) 16:07, 16 May 2018 (UTC)'<br />
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Sure, you risk breaking it permanently, but it is so worth it if you get the nobel prize.[[User:Linker|Linker]] ([[User talk:Linker|talk]]) 16:15, 16 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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This graph illustrates why, except for general maintenance, I don't attempt repairs unless the thing is already in the doesn't work part of the vertical axis. That way the only way is up and failure is just the status quo. BTW the same graph applies to software as well as hardware, except the words, cut wires becomes "hack system files". [[User:RIIW - Ponder it|RIIW - Ponder it]] ([[User talk:RIIW - Ponder it|talk]]) 22:15, 16 May 2018 (UTC)<br />
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Hey... I have a Captcha! --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.93.57|162.158.93.57]] 18:04, 17 May 2018 (UTC)</div>162.158.93.57